Alley of the Pressure Plates

[Dr. Guildo]

Does it get much more difficult than this? If so I think I'm just gonna quit. So far I've felt the difficulty curve has been really good but I feel like I've hit a brick wall with this puzzle. The two things I hate most in puzzle games are physics puzzles and time-based puzzles.

[Dr. Guildo]

Well almost as soon as I posted that I solved it but my brain almost melted. Still curious to know the difficulty curve I can expect.

[TombRaiser]

It only seems difficult. I've spent as long as a half hour trying to solve a puzzle on my own, and when I just couldn't wrap my head around the solution any longer, I looked up the answer to find it was easy all along. You have to consider all options, think outside the box, as there is always a solution.

[MASTAN]

If you can't solve some puzzle just skip it and return to it later. In the end you'll solve them all. Probably. I did.
Yes, puzzles are that good.

[piripiago]

The red puzzles are supposed to be harder. The hardest red puzzles are probably the ones that misdirect you to think you need to do something other than the actual solution. The recording puzzles can also get rather complex, but I try to just plan ahead and break them down into steps: set up before recording, actions performed while recording, then actions performed during playback. For most recording puzzles, a lot can usually be done during setup to simplify the recording.

The game is designed so you can skip any troublesome puzzles and come back to them later. In fact, I think some of the early red puzzles might intentionally be a higher difficulty to encourage you to skip around and do puzzles out of order.

Aside from that, there are a few star puzzles that can be especially tricky, ranging from "I didn't even know there was a puzzle here" to "I know exactly what I need to do, but aaAAAHH!" But the star puzzles are all optional (unless you are a completionist) and you can also play through puzzles in the Talos promotional game Sigils of Elohim to unlock up to three extra stars, although a lot of posts on the Sigils of Elohim steam discussion board that apparently the codes are not working properly.